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AWS Shield

AWS Shield - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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AWS Shield

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- [Instructor] One of the primary services that runs at AWS that you never actually see is a service called AWS Shield. This is a service that's protecting all customers for what potentially happens quite a lot. This is DDoS attacks on the cloud as a whole. So they're not charging us for this DDoS protection. They're trying to protect their own environment, and therefore us as well. So the whole end game of AWS Shield is DDoS protection for the hosted AWS services. They're trying to mitigate attacks for layer three, layer four network attacks against their infrastructure, UDP floods, or SYN floods. Lots of different attacks going on in the world, and they have to keep their infrastructure up for their customers. So there's nothing to define, nothing to set up. It's just a level of protection that is necessary to ensure that their services are always available. They also have an advanced version of Shield where you can call…

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